Permanent Ear Damage

Famous quotes containing the words permanent, ear and/or damage:

    There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States.
    James A. Garfield (1831–1881)

    “Why cannot the ear be closed to its own destruction?
    Or the glistening eye to the poison of a smile?
    William Blake (1757–1827)

    I learned early to understand that there is no such condition in human affairs as absolute truth. There is only truth as people see it, and truth, even in fact, may be kaleidoscopic in its variety. The damage such perception did to me I have felt ever since ... I could never belong entirely to one side of any question.
    Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973)